Messages by Desiring God

Sooner or later, every leader will hand off the baton to the next generation — and where better to center pastoral succession than in the word of God himself?

All the Bible knowledge in the world won’t help you unless you cherish God’s truth. We’re nothing more than Pharisees unless we taste the glory of God in his word.

No truth was more central to the Reformation that turned the world upside down 500 years ago: God justifies sinners by faith alone.

God works every dot on the timeline of history for his glory. Nothing stands outside the scope of his plan to bring fame to his name, for the joy of his people.

We often live as though we are God, but biblical thinking assumes that God is the center of all reality.

Christ calls us to live and die in such a way that we magnify his worth. Anything less is a wasted life.

Pain and suffering exist to make plain the horrors of the sinful heart and the wonders of the sovereign Christ.

Only a love sustained by genuine joy in God will propel us to take the gospel to the hardest places in the world.

Genuine preaching aims to display the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

In the fight for faith, our minds serve our hearts. Right knowledge fuels true passion.

The ultimate goal of the gospel is that God would be glorified in our enjoyment of him. God’s glory and our satisfaction are not two different ends, they’re one.

True Christian education prepares us to enjoy God and love our neighbors even more than it prepares us for the workforce.

The Christian life is a fight. But our deadliest enemy doesn’t attack us from the outside, but from within.

Real love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others, especially when it’s costly.

Christians don’t fly solo. Our faith won’t survive unless brothers and sisters in Christ keep us accountable.

Five hundred years ago, the Reformers fought to recover the true gospel. Fifteen hundred years before, God used Paul to pen the Reformers’ central text for justification by faith alone.

Your joy in God multiplies exponentially as you seek the good of your brothers and sisters in the body of Christ.

God has a place for every single one of us in missions. Some of us send, some of us go, but we must all have a gospel ambition.

The only reason any of us know God is because he chose us before the foundation of the world. Nothing we’ve done can earn our way to him — it’s all grace.

At the end of your life, as your energy fades, God will be your refuge and strength.

The very essence of evil is running to anything but God for ultimate joy. Watch, read, or listen to John Piper’s message from Passion 2017.

We are living in the third great era of world history — the era of the Spirit. Our only hope for advancing God’s mission is to lean on the power of his Spirit.

The true grace of God is given to us in Jesus Christ, who is full of grace and truth.

Satan believes the Scriptures are God’s very words. But the difference between us and him is that he doesn’t treasure that truth.

Christians claim their true citizenship in heaven. When we submit to earthly governments, we do so out of allegiance to Christ’s eternal kingdom.

Christian leaders should exude the Bible. They need to test everything they speak and write through the grid of biblical teaching.

Jesus’s supreme authority empowers his Great Commission. We go, teach, and teach others to teach in the confidence that Jesus himself is with us.

Central to biblical Christianity is the pursuit of our joy in God. John Piper expresses fifteen hopes for the future of maximizing our joy in God.

God’s volcanic passion for his own glory erupts in overflowing delight for his Son and unceasing joy for his children who share in God’s own glorious bliss.

In all true Bible reading, we think and God gives. We work hard to comprehend the authors’ intended meaning while we simultaneously rely on God to help us understand.

Whenever we read the Bible, we depend on God’s supernatural power to illumine the words, sentences, and paragraphs with his glory.

The Bible is indispensable to the Christian life. Without the written word, we simply could not know the Incarnate Word.

Christians embrace both the New Testament and the Old because every single page of the Scriptures points to Jesus who fulfills them.

God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is not the act of a needy ego, but an act of infinite giving.

Christians can show the world the hope they have within through joyful, humble willingness to suffer wrong and serve, rather than return evil for evil.

God supplies the sustaining grace we need to love others well as we seriously pursue our joy in him.

God created the world, and sustains it every second, to show the worth of his Son’s redeeming work.

God is glorified when Christians humble themselves openly as people who are not ashamed to beg for help.

Christ’s righteousness imputed to sinners through faith undergirds the whole of the Christian faith.

Humble unity in the gospel beautifully displays to a watching world that Jesus is more satisfying than getting your own way.

God’s pursuit of his own glory opens the door to a feast of beauty and truth that satisfies the human soul forever.

God doesn’t merely give us arguments for his love, but he gives us a real, authentic experience of his love!

You don’t need complicated arguments to know the Bible is true. You can see the Glory for yourself.

Where will we find the emotional power to keep us from returning evil for evil? Not in vague notions of grace, but by trusting God’s specific promises.

I want to help parents (and leaders of children’s ministries) see how the Bible shows itself to be true — and how to communicate this vital truth to our children.

For Martin Luther, the issue of man’s bondage to sin, and moral inability to believe or obey, was the root issue of the Reformation — and the lynchpin of Protestantism.

You love your spouse more when you love them less than God. If God is not central, your marriage will not glorify God as he intended.

There won’t be any phoniness in heaven. There will only be complete authenticity. So let’s resolve to start now because the facades will fade.

There isn’t anything greater than to see the Son of God in all his divine beauty and radiance and greatness, and be supremely and increasingly happy in him forever.

In the new America, a stage is being set as never before for the display of the glory of God through the joy of his grieving people.